Rock And Roll Quotes

I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.

Rock has always been the devil's music... I believe that rock & roll is dangerous... I feel that we're only heralding something even darker than ourselves.

Let's face it. Rock and Roll is bigger than all of us

I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll.

Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.

I know life sometimes can get tough! And I know life sometimes can be a drag! But people, we have been given a gift, We have been given a road, And that road's name is... Rock and Roll!

Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.

Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.

Where would rock and roll be without feedback?

Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow The drummer relaxes and waits between shows For his cinnamon girl.

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug If you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug Come and spread your arms if you really need a hug.

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.

I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.

The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.

Women play cellos and violins in symphony orchestras. They're playing Beethoven and Bach. What do you mean they can't play rock and roll?

It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.

I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

Every time I tried to tell you the words just came out wrong, so I'll have to say I love you in a song.

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

The angels had guitars before they had wings.

I love rock and roll, so put another dime in the juke box, baby.

Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.

My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she's a swinger dating a singer, I can't decide which is worse.

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.

All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.

I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.

A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

It's Only Rock and Roll.

Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop music, jazz, rock and roll, any combination of music that catches their ear.

Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

Rock and roll is about having a good time.

If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive.

My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage.

She's the quiet type who's into heavy metal.

Rock and Roll is simply an attitude. You don't have to play the greatest guitar.

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.

I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

Out on a 30 day tour, you got nothing, but groupies and promoters to love you.

You should know the lines, be prepared, get sleep, and have the script analyzed so you're ready to rock and roll.

When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.